How many constructors should a class have?

Question

I\'m currently modifying a class that has 9 different constructors. Now overall I believe this class is very poorly designed... so I\'m wondering if it is poor design for a clas

Answer 1

It's not just this class you have to worry about re-factoring. It's all the other classes as well. And this is probably just one thread in the tangled skein that is your code base. You have my sympathy... I'm in the same boat. Boss wants everything unit tested, doesn't want to rewrite code so we can unit test. End up doing some ugly hacks to make it work. You're going to have to re-write everything that is using the static class to no longer use it, and probably pass it around a lot more... or you can wrap it in a static proxy that accessses a singleton. That way you an at least mock the singleton out, and test that way.